1982, ISBN: 9780801828195

Small firms - including 'microenterprises' and 'small and medium enterprises' (SME´s) - play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all jobs. In add… More...

Small firms - including 'microenterprises' and 'small and medium enterprises' (SME´s) - play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all jobs. In addition, they foster entrepreneurship and help key sectors adapt to changing market conditions. In light of these benefits, programs promoting small firms have become a cornerstone of economic development policy. Increasingly, however, scholars and policymakers are also exploring the link between small firms and the environment. The first compendium of research and policy analysis on this topic, this book is organized around three questions: How important is small firm pollution? Will forcing small firms to comply with environmental regulations exacerbate unemployment and poverty? And what policy options are available to control small firm pollution? Eleven case studies from China, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Malaysia, and Mexico address these questions. They compare the environmental damages caused by small firms and large ones. They explore the positive and negative economic consequences of pollution control strategies focusing on small firms, the administrative challenges of regulating thousands of firms which are often unregistered and unknown to the government, and they describe innovative approaches for persuading small firms to implement effective pollution controls. The case studies cover a variety of industrial sectors including ceramics, leather tanning, textiles, and agro-industry, and evaluate a wide range of environmental management strategies that include encouraging collective action among small firms, creating economic incentives for pollution control, and helping small firms adopt clean technologies and environmental management systems. Many of the chapters are groundbreaking, addressing topics new to the literature, for example, the role of international trade in greening small firms, and funding small firm pollution control projects by linking them to efforts to stem global warming. Highly readable, 'Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries' is a valuable text for courses in development policy and economics that have an environmental component or focus. It will also prove of interest to development workers, policymakers in developing countries, and students and scholars of environmental policy and law. Buch (fremdspr.) Russell Hardin Taschenbuch, Johns Hopkins University Press, 01.06.1982, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982<

1982, ISBN: 9780801828195

Small firms - including 'microenterprises' and 'small and medium enterprises' (SME´s) - play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all jobs. In add… More...

Small firms - including 'microenterprises' and 'small and medium enterprises' (SME´s) - play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all jobs. In addition, they foster entrepreneurship and help key sectors adapt to changing market conditions. In light of these benefits, programs promoting small firms have become a cornerstone of economic development policy. Increasingly, however, scholars and policymakers are also exploring the link between small firms and the environment. The first compendium of research and policy analysis on this topic, this book is organized around three questions: How important is small firm pollution? Will forcing small firms to comply with environmental regulations exacerbate unemployment and poverty? And what policy options are available to control small firm pollution? Eleven case studies from China, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Malaysia, and Mexico address these questions. They compare the environmental damages caused by small firms and large ones. They explore the positive and negative economic consequences of pollution control strategies focusing on small firms, the administrative challenges of regulating thousands of firms which are often unregistered and unknown to the government, and they describe innovative approaches for persuading small firms to implement effective pollution controls. The case studies cover a variety of industrial sectors including ceramics, leather tanning, textiles, and agro-industry, and evaluate a wide range of environmental management strategies that include encouraging collective action among small firms, creating economic incentives for pollution control, and helping small firms adopt clean technologies and environmental management systems. Many of the chapters are groundbreaking, addressing topics new to the literature, for example, the role of international trade in greening small firms, and funding small firm pollution control projects by linking them to efforts to stem global warming. Highly readable, 'Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries' is a valuable text for courses in development policy and economics that have an environmental component or focus. It will also prove of interest to development workers, policymakers in developing countries, and students and scholars of environmental policy and law. Buch (fremdspr.) Russell Hardin Taschenbuch, Johns Hopkins University Press, 01.06.1982, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982<

1982, ISBN: 9780801828195

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], "Like its predecessor work, Mancur Olson's 'The Logic of Collective Action', Hardin's effort promises to prompt some original new … More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], "Like its predecessor work, Mancur Olson's 'The Logic of Collective Action', Hardin's effort promises to prompt some original new research on interest group politics. This innovative and scholarly public choice effort both challenges and advances Olson and the important attention he directed toward the internal behavior of interest group participants. In this work, Hardin's primary conceptual contribution is to note the static rather than dynamic nature of the social exchange relationships postulated earlier. By emphasizing the dynamic--and necessary forward-looking--exchanges that hold interest groups together, the author is able to develop a theory in which truly collective action is more likely possible than Olson would have us believe." --'Social Science Quarterly', September 1984, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 268, [GW: 435g], Sofortüberweisung, PayPal, Banküberweisung<

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